That this is the best country in the world. And everybody should receive a decent education. And it shouldnt matter because of your social background, your economic background. It is not supposed to matter. And the war in syria close to 200,000 civilians killed. Tonight, an exclusive look at the fight for rebel held city of aleppo. Well show you how a group of volunteers is trying to save the civilians caught from the cross hairs. Then shake rattle and roll. A 6. 2 magnitude earthquake rocks Northern California. I thought the roof was going to chance because ive never had anything shake so much in my life. An Early Warning system, how much warning did residents get odrop and cover . Good evening, thank you for joining us. Im sheila macvicar. Joie chen has the night off. An overflow crowd, attended the Emotional Funeral Service for Michael Brown this morning. A White FergusonPolice Officer shot and killed brown two weeks ago. Lori jane gliha takes us inside the ceremony and explains the premonition brown had not long before he was killed. Reporter more than 2,000 people bursting with energy past the Baptist Church in st. Louis. Friends, neighbors, National Leaders and family celebrated the short life of 18yearold Michael Brown with music, love and faith. There is a cry being made from the ground account not just for Michael Brown but for the Trayvon Martins for those children at sandy hook elementary school, for columbine massacre about. For the black on black crime, there is a crime being made from the ground. Red roses and a red billed cardinals cap topped browns casket. His mother bore tears. To get us together like this. Reporter family members called him mike mike and said he had a higher purpose. He even had a premonition of death, days before he died. He says ive been seeing death, ive been seeing pictures of death, i see bloody sheets hanging on the clothesline. It truly touched my heart and when i went up there, seeing mike mike, thats exactly what he was laying up under. He stated to the family that one day the world would know his name. He did not know that he was offering up a divine prophecy at the time. Attorney Benjamin Crump called for justice. He wasnt three fifths of a citizen. He was an american citizen. We will not accept three fifths justice. We will demand equal justice for Michael Brown, jr. Al sharpton called for change. We are not antipolice. We respect police. But those police that are wrong need to be dealt with just like those in our community are wrong, need to be dealt with. We have to be outraged by our disrespect for each other. Our disregard for each other. Our killing and shooting and running around guntoting each other. He warned of difficult days ahead but said ultimately there will be justice and peace. You know how this story is going to end. The first will be last. The last will be first. The lion and the lamb will lay down together, and got god will, god will, god will make a way for his children. I been to the end of the book. Justice is going to come. Justice is going to come. Justice going come. Lori jane gliha, al jazeera. Family, friends and the community of ferguson have vowed to not let the death of Michael Brown go in vain. Change must come from the use of youth of the ferguson area. Special Community Town hall being held tonight in st. Louis. And marcus murchison. I know you were joining that protest in the last couple of weeks. How has that changed your view of your community . It has changed a lot. Because those were things that i never thought i would see, especially in my short time of only being 19. As well as i never thought i would see Something Like that in the st. Louis city area. And just not even just with the death of Michael Brown, but just what what have what the Law Enforcement has been doing, as far as the tanks being advancing on Peaceful Protesters and governor jay nixon ordering the National Guard come in. It is just surreal, things i never thought i would see in my life. The Community Town meeting is being organized by kevin powell to legality young people think, hear the voices of young people. If you are going ospeak at that meeting what are you going to say . I was doing this work since i was marcuss age, 18, 19 years of age. Im proud of them using their voices and Organizational Skills to go out there and protests an injustice. A lot of people talk about the youth generation and act as if theyre not doing anything but they are doing things around the country. Ferguson is getting notice around the world. People from all around the world are calling me about the situation, you see ferguson, im very proud of what these young people are doing. I am very proud of what theyre doing, once its no longer trendy to talk about what happens in ferguson, this is a modern day selma, alabama. Michael brown is the modern day emma till and people are taking notice of that. Thank you for joining us. California governor jerry brown declared a state of emergency today, after a 6. 0 magnitude earthquake rocked Northern California sunday, the strongest earthquake to strike the state in 25 years. Regular tagged buildings, too dangerous for use, more than 100 suffered moderate damage. Hospital Officials Say more than 200 people were injured at least six still listed in critical condition. Economic losses from the earthquake, much of it in wine are estimated at roughly 4 billion. Are here in napas wine country, people are picking up the pieces and assessing the damage. At three 20 sunday morning 3 20 sunday morning californians were woke wn a violent jolt. In 20 seconds the quake had destroyed nearly 100 buildings started several fires and ruptured gas lines. Thankfully no deaths but dozens of injuries. Its been a very busy 30 hours for emergency response. Fire service ran over 360 calls during that first 30 hours. 92 of those were gasrelated. The smell of gas. 50 power lines down or power line issues. And we had 50 fires. The most significant was the Mobile Home Park up north. Where four of those mobile homes were completely destroyed. One of the worsthit communities was a small Mobile Home Park in napa valley, home to about 300 people. It is a community not dissimilar to a lot of communities in company. There are folks on one side, the haves and the other fixed images, that you think of napa and the iconic area. This is part of the california community. Lieutenant governor gavin newsom came to assess the damage. You think thats fine, think about a mobile home let alone any foam holm without a foundation, these are on cinder blocks, they moved significantly and looks like someone just a dozen people came in and ransacked. Many of the residents here are senior citizens. The hornsbys are among them. Barbara survived by being under a bookcase. Fortunately we have just paper back booker, so i came out without much of a scratch. It was very hard to clear a path but he rescued me got me up and out. Other long time residents say they have never felt anything like this. I thought this was the big one. I thought roof was going to collapse, this is it because i never felt anything shake so violently in my life. It was very terrifying. We have lived through a few earthquakes in california and 55 years ive never felt anything so terrifying. As minor yach shocks continue to ripple through Northern California, initial estimates have already topped over 1 billion. People in california were given ten seconds advance notice thanks oan Early Warning system. Dr. Peggy helwig is with us. Dr. Helwi grveg, how might this lwig, how will that help you in the future . If you are closer, it only allows you a couple of seconds. But its only taking you a couple of seconds to get under the desk and hold on. Thats for personal safety part of it. The other part of it is the automated response. For example, as soon as this information comes, computers can start slowing down trains. Or generators can be started in hospitals so that when the power fails, the people in the emergency room and the intensive care still have power and still are on all of their life support systems. So in that case, a second, two seconds is plenty of time to actually do something. Its important, our partners are there to look at the warning, and decide in the case of their operations, what kinds of things could happen in as few as one or two seconds, that would make their operations be safer in case of an earthquake, that would make them have less damage, perhaps fewer deaths or injured, and to be able to be more resilient and recover more quickly in case of an earthquake. Dr. Peggy helwig with the berkeley size monthly o seismological institute. Thank you. Corresponds michael okwu reports, city leaders have tapped a veteran seismologist to tap the next big one. I felt like a giant maybe picked up my house and ripped it out of the earth and started shaking it. In the predawn hours of january 17th, 1994, susan and her family woke up to a nightmare. A large earthquake more powerful than any the Southern California native had ever experienced. My husband grabbed my daughter. She was 74 years old. And i grabbed my twoyearold and we went to leave the house and we tried to get out of the front door but so much had fallen that we couldnt escape. Reporter when the shaking stopped, 57 people were dead. Property damages exceeded 20 billion, making the northridge earthquake one of the deadliest and most expensive in u. S. History. You can see we had to take it back down to the very frame of the house. Reporter aslins family lost their dream home and spent the next six months living in the driveway. Some others fared worse including one man who committed suicide. 20 years on, memories of northridge still haunt angelinos. Yet Los Angeles County remains ill prepared for an even bigger quake thats bound to strike. The potential for devastation massive given the multiple fall lines that carve the region. Their main concern older buildings not yet upgraded to withstand a violent quake. We definitely expect to see some of these nonductile concrete buildings just collapse. Tom heaton is the director of the Earthquake Engineering Research laboratory at the California Institute of technology. If it was in the daytime, people would be in their offices, and not many would survive that situation. There are literally hundreds of buildings out there that could collapse in that case. Reporter earlier this year, heaton coauthored a study that used computer models to simulate how buildings would perform in moderate to very strong seismic ground motions. Buildings which have just nonductile concrete columns and no walls at all, and believe me, there are plenty of them, those are the ones that were especially worried about. Weve known for decades that these buildings need to be retrofitted, retired. Finding the political will to do something about it is much more difficult. Reporter by some estimates, a strong earthquake could level between six to 10,000 softstory structures alone, threatening tens of thousands of people. And were not just talking about ordinary residential and office buildings. Dozens of l. A. s most prominent structures are in jeopardy. From the icons off hollywood boulevard to some of the towers that line the miracle mile. After years of inertia city officials are finally waking up. Thanks to a surge of media attention, and troubling new research that was released around the 20th anniversary of northridge. In january, Los Angeles MayorEric Garcetti tapped veteran Seismologist Lucy Jones to prepare americas second largest city for the next big one. What are the priorities . You cant run a city or a business without water. Its potentially our most vulnerable infrastructure. Loss of its pretty bad. Joan says the four main aqueducts cross a major fault line and are likely to break in a large quake. It could take between 12 and 18 months to repair the aqueducts leaving millions of angelinos, in back in time. If you look, the level of activity in 1905 after the 1906 earthquake. To be clear about this youre saying an earthquake in Southern California today could destroy the economy . It could, yes. So far that we would lose more than half our population. If we dont have water here for six months how long are you willing to stay when you havent had a shower . Earthquake, earthquake. Reporter whenever the next big one strikes, tom heaton wants to give people a head start. Hes pushing for more funding to expand an Early Warning system that would alert people in Los Angeles County to a coming earthquake. Before they felt it. Earthquake, earthquake. Thats the good news. Bad news, earthquakes happen very quickly so were only talking about seconds to tens of seconds here. I keep shoes by my bed now. I dont want to have to walk over glass like i did and take chances. As susan aslin tells it, there was no time to lose. With their home crumbling around them her family somehow found a path to safety. Reporter what is it like to come back to this home . It brings back a lot of memories. Reporter they have since moved to a new neighborhood that aslin says is less vulnerable to earthquakes. Although she has more peace of mind she will never forget the lessons of nort northridge. Michael okwu, al jazeera, california. Can anything be done to stop the advance of i. S . Then later in the show, the battle for aleppo, an exclusive firsthand look of the fighting and syrias new weapon of mass destruction. Fault lines labor day marathon the true cost of cheap labor nothing can be worse than this people burnt to ash. Horrendous conditions. Traffic labor on us bases. Management stealing wages. Exploited children put to work. How many of you get up at 4 or 5 oclock in the morning to go out to the fields . Dont miss our Award Winning series fault lines labor day marathon only on Al Jazeera America now available, the new al jazeea america mobile news app. Get our exclusive in depth, reporting when you want it. A global perspective wherever you are. The major headlines in context. Mashable says. Youll never miss the latest news they will continue looking for survivors. The potential for Energy Production is huge. No noise, no clutter, just real reporting. The new Al Jazeera America mobile app, available for your apple and android mobile device. Download it now welcome back. While international corc condemnation mounts against the Islamic State, a caliphate across syria and iraq. It made more important gains this week when it seized a key syrian air base. This amateur video shows the aftermath of that fierce battle for control of the strategic ally important tab qa air base. 340 i. S. Fighters were killed in the battle. Along with about soldiers. If the numbers were correct, this would be the deadliest confrontation between the two sides since the start of the war. Syrian television reported the base had been evacuated and the base was still carrying out air strikes against the group. Using drones and attack aircraft, the u. S. Continued attacks in northern iraq, around the kurdish region erbil. As the United States was considering extending those strikes into syria. Were considering what needs to eliminate that threat and were not going to be restricted by borders. Weve shown time and again if the there is counteractions, well not respect borders for that strike. We are ready to cooperate and coordinate with regional countries and the International Community in fighting terrorism following the resolution of the security council. We welcome everybody. Reporter in iraq too the fight against i. S. Is proving challenging. Claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing at a shia mosque that killed at least seven people as well as other attacks at kirk u. C. And erbil. , around the cities of zumar. In terms of the deputy he areas, we are gaining control of some of those areas, outside much peshmerga control, god willing we will take them over very soon. Are u. S. Air strikes enough to combat the threat of Islamic State fighters . Mark kimmet, we have seen the group develop and improve both in resources and strategically very, very quickly. We have been told by the white house that the president has not yet made a decision about what he intends to do. Is there any doubt in your mind that he will in fact order more air strikes, perhaps even air strikes into their syrian stronghold . I think theres a lot of doubt that this president will do that. He is looking and listening to the American People and american polls and more concerned about votes than he is about the National Security of this country. So he may feel that if as long as the American People arent giving him the authority and the votes in order to do this, he might actually pull back the way he did in syria with the initial callingoff of the syrian air strikes. One thing he has been very clear about is there will be no american boots on the ground. He has said that repeatedly, his advisors have said that repeatedly. Is i